Want your parents to be able to call your dormitory phone, but didn't pay for service?
My parents insisted that I register at a Boston post office, using my Scarsdale, New York, home address and my Syracuse, New York, dormitory phone number in the hopes that it would somehow slow the draft board down should things escalate beyond boycotting the Olympics.
In a partial reversal of a policy implemented last fall, IS&T reinstated direct-dial incoming telephone service to MIT dormitory phones free of charge yesterday.
In this week's installment of our recurring series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, competing protests take place on Nassau Street, dormitory phones get voicemail, and more.
In the event that you are locked out, please follow the directions posted near the dormitory entrance phones.
It's a far cry from the days of calling home once a week — collect — from the pay phone in the dormitory hallway.
He hired several employees and supervised the company by phone from his dormitory room, driving home in his Saab for major business projects.
There's a basketball court in the factory courtyard there for future Yao Mings, workers' dormitories have a complimentary cell phone charging station, and unskilled workers earn $4 a day nearly twice the region's minimum wage all in an effort to hold on to employees in southern China's export hothouse.
Because I was president of the engineering student government, I was asked to sit on a university buildings and safety committee, and we were looking at a telephone-based system that would allow students to use a phone to unlock the dormitory doors.
The university plans to stop offering traditional phone service in its dormitories eventually.
The city of Foshan's "Car Assembly Town" is typical: a few broad low-rise factories, a thicket of six-storey dormitories, an internet cafe, a mobile phone shop, a bank and a small street of food kiosks selling noodles, fried rice, boiled eggs and spicy stew.
